Jan Mischke

May 15, 2024 | weforum.org | Jan Mischke

As we enter a new geo-economic era, Europe's competitiveness is under pressure. New research highlights the need for bold action if European firms are to compete globally. Scaling up across Europe, in areas such as R&D, will help companies increase their competitiveness. Enrico Letta’s report on the single market, presented to the European Council recently, comes at a time when Europe is wrestling with competitiveness in a new geo-economic era. How important is market scale for competitiveness?

Mar 26, 2024 | mckinsey.com | Jan Mischke |Chris Bradley |Marc Canal |Olivia White

It’s time to raise investment and catch the next productivity wave. At a glance The past quarter century has been a success story for global productivity. Median economy productivity has jumped sixfold. Thirty emerging economies, with 3.6 billion people, are in the “fast lane” of improvement; if they maintained this pace, they would converge to advanced-economy productivity levels within roughly the next quarter century.

Sep 6, 2023 | thewealthadvisor.com | Jan Mischke |Olivia White

(Fortune) - COVID-19. War in Europe. Inflation. Geopolitical uncertainty. Global business leaders have had a lot to deal with in the last few years, and they cannot assume the future will be any easier or more familiar. Rather, the economic, banking, and investment landscape of the next decade is likely to look materially different from the recent past. Economically speaking, the 21st century has been unusual.

Jul 20, 2023 | es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com | Jan Mischke |Olivia White |Aditya Sanghvi

Many thinkers today, like those bearded sign-bearers in the cartoons, are proclaiming that the end is near, at least for big cities. During the pandemic, the argument goes, residents and businesses fled cities, beginning an “urban doom loop” in which falling property tax revenues make cities less livable–prompting still more residents and businesses to flee. The eventual result, they foretell, will be the death of urban real estate. Is the doomsaying accurate?

Jul 20, 2023 | fortune.com | Jan Mischke |Olivia White |Aditya Sanghvi

Many thinkers today, like those bearded sign-bearers in the cartoons, are proclaiming that the end is near, at least for big cities. During the pandemic, the argument goes, residents and businesses fled cities, beginning an “urban doom loop” in which falling property tax revenues make cities less livable–prompting still more residents and businesses to flee. The eventual result, they foretell, will be the death of urban real estate. Is the doomsaying accurate?